the one trillion dollar coin, intended to allow the president to completely ignore the debt ceiling and just keep on spending on the nation that we've got this trillion dollar coin in the bank. here is the idea. the treasury department would mint a one trillion dollar coin, normally supposed to be federal reserve that makes our money, but this would be done by the treasury department and then they would deposit it in the federal reserve they wouldn't circulate it, but be there astra money in our savings and money would be use today finance our government without consent from congress. on wednesday, the white house press secretary jay carney did not rule it out. >> look it, there's no substitute for congress extending the borrowing authority of the united states. >> will they roll it out. >> you can speculate about a lot of things, but there's not-- nothing needs to come to these kinds of, you know, speculative notion about how to deal with a problem easily resolved by congress doing its job. very simply, since treasury, i believe, overseas printing and minting, you might ask treasury. >